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Post Earthquake: Managing the Situation in Christchurch NZ

Disaster Zone Podcast

In this Disaster Zone Podcast we will be talking about the significant challenges New Zealand and Christchurch faced in the aftermath of their 2010-2011 Earthquakes. The podcast guest is Brent Winder is a native New Zealander. He has had multiple roles in leadership ranging from ten years in the New Zealand Navy, to positions with Queens Town Lakes District Council and the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA).

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What the Supreme Court’s Loper ruling could mean for cybersecurity and MSPs

Acronis

In late June 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in a decision, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, more commonly referred to as the Chevron decision, which gives courts much greater authority to interpret legislation and strike down related regulations.

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Climate Change and Hurricanes: Unraveling the Impact and Preparing for the Future

BryghtPath

The intersection of climate change and hurricane activity has become a focal point for scientific research and policy discussions worldwide. While debates continue over whether climate change directly increases the frequency of Atlantic hurricanes, there is a strong consensus that global warming significantly impacts their behavior and intensity. This warming enhances hurricane dynamics by increasing … The post Climate Change and Hurricanes: Unraveling the Impact and Preparing for the Futu

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EQT to acquire a majority stake in Acronis, Acronis continues to expand its platform for MSPs

Acronis

The partnership between Acronis and EQT, the global investment organization, builds upon a shared growth vision, commitment to accelerating the expansion of its platform, and continued strong focus on customer service. The founders, management, and existing investors will remain significant minority shareholders.

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The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity

The Complete Guide to Mastering Business Continuity is a step-by-step resource for developing an effective Business Continuity Management (BCM) program and navigating challenges. Whether building from scratch or enhancing a plan, this guide offers practical tools, expert advice, and strategies to ensure resilience. What You’ll Learn: Key elements of BCM and resiliency Steps to build and test your Business Continuity Plan (BCP) Conducting risk assessments and BIAs Integrating cybersecurity into p

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The National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research: Five Years of Accomplishments

The Rand Blog

Just five years ago, little scientific evidence existed on the effects of gun laws in the United States. Since 2019, the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research has allocated more than $24 million to fund research projects on gun violence prevention, resulting in a windfall of new scientific results, with more to come.

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Balancing Centralization and Autonomy: The Key to Automation at Scale by Jake Cohen

PagerDuty

The recent global outage reminds us that identifying issues and their impact radius is just the first part of a lengthy process to remediation. Incidents are inevitable; how we prepare for and learn from them is what sets teams up to respond more effectively next time. As we saw from the remediation steps taken by enterprises around the world, implementing a known fix across a large number of environments that are potentially managed by a number of distributed teams can be a gargantuan challenge

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Will 1984’s Prophecies Come True? Not If the New AI Act Has Something to Say about It

Pure Storage

Will 1984’s Prophecies Come True? Not If the New AI Act Has Something to Say about It by Blog Home Summary The 2024 European Commission’s AI Act seeks to ensure AI use cases and applications stay “trustworthy.” Leveraging technology solutions that help you optimize your AI investments in an ever-evolving regulatory environment can help you build a brighter future. 1984.

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Balancing Centralization and Autonomy: The Key to Automation at Scale by Jake Cohen

PagerDuty

The recent global outage reminds us that identifying issues and their impact radius is just the first part of a lengthy process to remediation. Incidents are inevitable; how we prepare for and learn from them is what sets teams up to respond more effectively next time. As we saw from the remediation steps taken by enterprises around the world, implementing a known fix across a large number of environments that are potentially managed by a number of distributed teams can be a gargantuan challenge

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35 Workplace safety topics for meetings

everbridge

Workplace safety is a critical aspect of any organization, ensuring the well-being of employees and the smooth operation of daily activities. Regular safety meetings and tabletop exercises are essential for reinforcing safety protocols and keeping everyone informed about the latest guidelines and best practices. Here are 35 comprehensive workplace safety topics for meetings, designed to enhance your team’s knowledge and commitment to safety.

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Mastering Remote Onboarding: Proven Strategies for Seamless New Hire Integration

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

Join this brand new webinar with Tim Buteyn to learn how you can master the art of remote onboarding! By the end of this session, you'll understand how to: Craft a Tailored Onboarding Checklist 📝 Develop a comprehensive, customized checklist that ensures every new hire has a smooth transition into your company, no matter where they are in the world.

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Emergency Response Planning Tasks

MHA Consulting

There are numerous risks a company can face that will require an Emergency Response Plan. Rather than creating a separate plan for every type of event that could occur, it is advisable to create a basic emergency response checklist that can be used regardless of the emergency. A response plan can cover a variety of emergencies. Emergencies that require similar actions can be grouped together so you can limit the number of emergency responses that need to be developed.

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Nurturing and Destroying Democracy: The Two Sides of Bangladesh's Ousted Awami League

The Rand Blog

Amidst violent protests and mounting dissent in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation marks the end of an era, leaving Bangladesh in turmoil and casting a shadow over its democratic aspirations. The future of Bangladesh hangs in the balance with an uncertain military role and a populace hungry for change.

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Risk impact

MHA Consulting

Depending on a risk’s impact and probability of occurring, different risk control measures can be taken. Accept the Risk : for rarely occurring, low-impact risks that are unlikely to jeopardize the business, it may be reasonable to accept the risk. Some risks fall outside of your control, such as government policy, and so must be accepted by default.

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Business Continuity Education and Awareness

MHA Consulting

A search within your organization could reveal operational incidents, failures of service level achievements, quality deficiencies, help desk issues, product defects and other problems which could have been disasters. Awareness may be raised by a Business Continuity Education and Awareness program. This program could include: The Business Continuity Manager attending key meetings (project meetings, progress meetings, quality meetings, service management meetings) to ensure Business Continuity co

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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How Can We Manage Operational Risk?

MHA Consulting

The key to Operational Risk Management lies in the understanding and management of two important concepts: Loss and Probability. Loss can include a wide range of both tangible and intangible components such as: Lost sales and missed trade opportunities Loss of market share and long-term revenue Fines, penalties, lawsuits, and interest payments Damaged reputation, share price, brand value and image Loss of employment or directorship Reduced pay, compensation or benefits Excessive overtime Physica

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America – The Time to Be Prepared for the Next Disaster is Now

MHA Consulting

As a leading continuity-consulting firm to major private and public entities over the last thirteen (13) years, we have worked across many industries and seen varying levels of organizational preparedness in the event of an unplanned disruption due to natural, man-made or technological events. We have written many times over the years on the lack of preparedness across our private and public entities that have a proven need to have robust continuity plans to continue operations following a cata

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Operational Risk Management

MHA Consulting

What is Operational Risk Management (ORM)? Operational risk is a component of every organization that reflects the unavoidable fact that assets, processes and people can fail. When any of these failures occur it leads to effects that are unplanned and unwanted by any business. Examples of these risks are more common than you may believe. A computer fails and a day’s work is lost.

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ICS in the Corporate World

MHA Consulting

On a recent post, we discussed the basics of the Incident Command System (ICS). This week we are building off of these ideas and seeing how a typical ICS structure may look for a corporation. ICS enables integrated communication and planning by establishing a manageable span of control. ICS divides a company’s response into five (5) controllable functions essential for emergency response operations, Command, Operations, Planning, Logistics, and Finance and Administration. = The ICS structure can

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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BCP Case Study – Leading City Government in Arizona

MHA Consulting

The Client: The client is Arizona’s 7th largest city with highly complex business operations that support the critical day to day needs of its 160,000 plus residents. The Need: Develop and implement a working, self-sustaining Business Continuity Planning (BCP) program capable of supporting the recovery needs of the city and its key operations while ensuring compliance with federal, state and industry best practices.

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Crisis Management Case Study – Leading Financial Risk Management Organization

MHA Consulting

The Client : The client is a leading financial risk management organization to the major banking and financial institutions across the United States. The organization is highly regulated and must meet stringent Business Continuity Planning (BCP) guidelines for financial institutions as well as those of its customers. The Need: Develop and implement a working, self-sustaining Crisis Management Team as part of the enterprise BCP initiative… Download The Full Case Study [email-download downlo

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IT Optimization Case Study – Leading Regional Healthcare Organization

MHA Consulting

The Client: The client is a large regional hospital in Columbus Ohio. It is a family of not-for-profit faith-based hospitals and healthcare organizations serving patients in central Ohio since 1891. The Need: Perform an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) assessment of select IT processes within the technology organization by interviewing key stakeholders internal and external to the organization.

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Emergency Response Planning Tasks

MHA Consulting

There are numerous risks a company can face that will require an Emergency Response Plan. Rather than creating a separate plan for every type of event that could occur, it is advisable to create a basic emergency response checklist that can be used regardless of the emergency. A response plan can cover a variety of emergencies. Emergencies that require similar actions can be grouped together so you can limit the number of emergency responses that need to be developed.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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Risk impact

MHA Consulting

Depending on a risk’s impact and probability of occurring, different risk control measures can be taken. Accept the Risk : for rarely occurring, low-impact risks that are unlikely to jeopardize the business, it may be reasonable to accept the risk. Some risks fall outside of your control, such as government policy, and so must be accepted by default.

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Business Continuity Education and Awareness

MHA Consulting

A search within your organization could reveal operational incidents, failures of service level achievements, quality deficiencies, help desk issues, product defects and other problems which could have been disasters. Awareness may be raised by a Business Continuity Education and Awareness program. This program could include: The Business Continuity Manager attending key meetings (project meetings, progress meetings, quality meetings, service management meetings) to ensure Business Continuity co

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How Can We Manage Operational Risk?

MHA Consulting

The key to Operational Risk Management lies in the understanding and management of two important concepts: Loss and Probability. Loss can include a wide range of both tangible and intangible components such as: Lost sales and missed trade opportunities Loss of market share and long-term revenue Fines, penalties, lawsuits, and interest payments Damaged reputation, share price, brand value and image Loss of employment or directorship Reduced pay, compensation or benefits Excessive overtime Physica

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America – The Time to Be Prepared for the Next Disaster is Now

MHA Consulting

As a leading continuity-consulting firm to major private and public entities over the last thirteen (13) years, we have worked across many industries and seen varying levels of organizational preparedness in the event of an unplanned disruption due to natural, man-made or technological events. We have written many times over the years on the lack of preparedness across our private and public entities that have a proven need to have robust continuity plans to continue operations following a cata

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha